Well, all of us webmasters have been waiting for
nearly three months since the last Google Page Rank that occurred on May 3
2012.It has been generally understood that the Google Page Rank updates occur
on a regular if not periodic basis of around 3 months each. We are almost near
the end of the third month since the Google Page Rank of May 2012.So if you are
a blogger or a webmaster, you can surely look forward to a Google Page Rank
update that is right around the corner.

One of the reasons why the page rank updates are
spaced as they are is to offer some time for bloggers and webmasters to
increase their page rank. If you have done all the stuff mentioned in that blog
post on increasing Google Page Rank, then you can be rest assured that your
page rank will increase soon.

We can expect to see the change in toolbar page
rank within the first week of August that is before the 7th.

Back in February, iMore
was the first source to claim that Apple will be introducing a smaller dock
connector for its iOS devices, with the claim now being supported by a number
of other sources and evidence in the form of part leaks showing a much smaller
opening in the casing of what is claimed to be the next-generation iPhone.

But other details on
the new dock connector have remained unclear, with various sources reporting
different numbers of pins for the new connector compared to the current 30-pin
design. TechCrunch was the first to report that the new design would contain 19
pins, a claim that gained credibility when Reuters cited the same number last
month.

Other numbers of pins
have, however, been circulating with iLounge last week claiming just eight pins
for the new connector. And just yesterday, 9to5Mac reported on a reference to
"9Pin" in a section of iOS 6 code addressing core hardware features.

Regardless of the exact
number of pins included in the new dock connector design, it appears that the
connector itself will be even smaller than originally thought based on leaked
photos of casings seen so far. French site Nowehereelse.fr posted a new photo
it has received showing that there is actually a metal ring inside the casing
cutout for the new dock connector.

The purpose of the
ring is currently unknown, but some have been hoping that Apple's new dock
connector will include an attachment mechanism similar to the MagSafe standard
used on the company's notebook computers. A MagSafe-like dock connector could
allow users to insert the cable in either orientation, a feature suggested last
week by iLounge, and make it easier for the cables to simply snap into place.

Recently it has been discovered
through some testing with Apple's official iOS simulator that iOS 6 is capable
of automatically scaling its home screen display to fit a taller 1136x640
display, compared to the current 960x640 display. Numerous rumors and part
leaks have indicated that Apple will be including a taller display on the
next-generation iPhone to be introduced next month.

iOS
simulator at 1136x640 with five rows of icons under iOS 6 and four rows under
iOS 5.1

Thanks to some tweaks
to theiOS Simulator application that is included in the iOS development tools,
we were able to run the simulator at the rumored next-generation iPhone display
resolution of 640 x 1136. We did this running both the current public release
of iOS 5.1 and the upcoming iOS 6.0 The iOS 5.1 simulator displayed the home
screen with a stretched set of four rows of icons. On the other hand, iOS 6
displayed five complete rows – as our sources said Apple was testing for taller
iPhone displays.

Notably, setting the
iOS simulator to resolutions other than 1136x640 does not result in automatic
scaling, with the software instead simply defaulting to an "iPad-like home
screen layout" different from what is seen for the iPhone. The observation
suggests that there is something special about that 1136x640 resolution that
suggests Apple has at least been working on an iOS 6 device supporting that
screen size.

In line with last
month's report on negotiations between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) over the company's circumvention of privacy settings in
Safari, the FTC has officially announced that Google has agreed to pay a record
$22.5 million penalty to settle the case.

The settlement is part
of the FTC’s ongoing efforts make sure companies live up to the privacy
promises they make to consumers, and is the largest penalty the agency has ever
obtained for a violation of a Commission order. In addition to the civil
penalty, the order also requires Google to disable all the tracking cookies it
had said it would not place on consumers’ computers.

“The record setting
penalty in this matter sends a clear message to all companies under an FTC
privacy order,” said Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FTC. “No matter how big or
small, all companies must abide by FTC orders against them and keep their
privacy promises to consumers, or they will end up paying many times what it
would have cost to comply in the first place.”

Graphic
from The Wall Street Journal

Google took advantage
of a loophole in Safari's privacy settings designed to prevent placement of
third-party cookies by default, using invisible web forms to trick Safari into
thinking that users had interacted with Google's ads and thus allowing cookies
to be placed on the device.

The FTC specifically
charged Google with violating an October 2011 order related to a previous case
of privacy violations. In the new Safari case, FTC commissioners voted 4-1 to
approve the settlement, with the dissenting commissioner arguing against the
settlement allowing Google to deny all liability related to the issue.